Sung Tieu: 1992, 2005
Bridging memory work and the uncanny, Tieu’s exhibition confronts Germany’s buried xenophobia through slippery visual and sonic signifiers that elude any stable index.
Preview
At first glance, Sung Tieu’s large-scale exhibition 1992, 2025 at Berlin’s Kunstwerke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW) is a survey in the classic sense of the term: it provides both an overview of the incredible breadth of forms and materials the artist deploys in her practice and a confluence of biographical, institutional, and cultural concerns that have especially demarcated her exhibitions in Germany over the past six to seven years.
